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Ice no obstacle

Russia is planning to build a submarine oil tanker to retrieve oil from
seabed wells in the southeast Barents Sea, which is frozen for nine months of
the year.

The submarine, the first of its kind in the world, will be nuclear-powered
and capable of carrying up to 30 000 tonnes of oil, equivalent to a medium-sized
surface tanker. It will be built by Russia’s Arctic Transport Company and
Malakhit, which designed the Soviet Union’s submarine fleet.